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Russia threatens to expand Ukraine conflict

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has issued a veiled threat to expand the conflict in east Ukraine if the US supplied Ukraine with weapons. "It's hard to imagine how the self-declared republics would respond. Perhaps they would deploy weapons to other conflict zones," he said at a BRICS summit in China on Tuesday. The "self-declared republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk are two Russia-armed and controlled territories in east Ukraine.

Opinion

It seems as if the EU and some member states are trying to 'sell' European external action in Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary as a key to solving internal issues – and thus pulling these missions into today's populist debates.

Most UK voters in a YouGov survey said they would remain part of the European Union should a second referendum be held now. The poll follows reports the EU is willing to make a concession on British exit demands.